The idea is to make you do a 25 WINS accolade on any ground/space mission that has an elite version to unlock access to the elite version. It should be per specific STF/PVE thing! Even event mission. Then you can grind them before you start getting the elite variation.

This would control flow into such missions and make sure everyone knows how to do them more before they do them. It would save alot of headache for a lot of people.

Make that at least 75... everything else is just condescending BS...
And add In accolades for Gear! MkXII Ultra Rare AT LEAST for everything or I'm gonna get outta that STFs faster than you can say "Hey I'm new!" and then spend the rest of the waiting time on the Forums making thread after thread about how the Leavers Penalty is BS...

Make that at least 75... everything else is just condescending BS...
And add In accolades for Gear! MkXII Ultra Rare AT LEAST for everything or I'm gonna get outta that STFs faster than you can say "Hey I'm new!" and then spend the rest of the waiting time on the Forums making thread after thread about how the Leavers Penalty is BS...

Sounds to me like you want to change the e in estf from elite to elitist...

I ran elites long before I ever ran a normal one, never ever failed one, and the only time I don't get the optional is when the PUG I am in isn't up to the task. Yet by your suggestion I would be excluded from running elites and forced to grind normals, not because I'm not up to running the elites but purely because I haven't done the normals enough times?

No thanks.

To put that stuck record back onto the player again, if you don't like the chance of failing, or even just not getting the optional, don't pug. Otherwise just suck it up as a part of the game.